Thursday, August 15, 2019

When is this guy getting thrown out of tennis?

Nick Kyrgios is at it again.

He faces another suspension (his second in three years) after being fined $113,000 for NINE unsportsmanlike conduct fouls in a second-round loss at the Western and Southern Open.

After being called for a time foul and denied a bathroom break, Kyrgios decided to take one anyway (UC #1), in which he destroyed two racquets (UC #2 and #3), berated the umpire with obscenity (UC #4 for obscenity, UC #5 for verbal abuse), committed ball abuse (UC #6) and committed three other unnamed unsportsmanlike conduct offenses (7, 8, and 9) in a third set peppered with abuse of the chair umpire.

How he was not defaulted by the umpire should also be investigated, but he now has to pay $100,000 out of pocket to continue to play on the Tour, even if he is NOT suspended.  He won about $15,000 for his "performance".

Kyrgios was thrown out of the Italian Open in May for hurling a chair across the court, and other fouls.  Many were calling for a suspension which would still be in force today.

Get him off the ATP Tour.

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